Go from resource-level to business-level maintenance in Google Cloud
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Google Cloud 推出 App-centric 维护可见性功能，将维护管理从资源级提升到业务级，显著提升运维效率。
核心要点
- App-centric 功能通过 App Hub 集成，将资源维护事件映射到业务应用，减少手动操作。
- 平台工程师可即时查看应用性能下降是否与计划中的基础设施更新相关。
- 支持的服务列表持续扩展，目前涵盖 GKE、GCE 和 AlloyDB 等核心服务。
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App-centric 功能通过 App Hub 集成，将资源维护事件映射到业务应用，减少手动操作。
平台工程师可即时查看应用性能下降是否与计划中的基础设施更新相关。
支持的服务列表持续扩展，目前涵盖 GKE、GCE 和 AlloyDB 等核心服务。
Managing planned maintenance is a critical part of running a reliable business. But as your cloud footprint grows into hundreds or even thousands of projects, keeping track of every individual update can feel like a full-time job. For many platform teams, the reality is a disjointed experience: jumping between dashboards to figure out which maintenance event affects which business service.
At Google Cloud, we believe you shouldn’t have to think like an infrastructure manager when you’re trying to solve a business problem. That’s why we are excited to announce the launch of App-centric maintenance visibility within Unified Maintenance.
Shifting the focus to your business
Until now, maintenance visibility was primarily resource-focused. You could see when a specific Compute Engine VM or Cloud SQL instance was due for an update, but you had to manually map those resources to the applications they powered.
With App-centric visibility, we are shifting the focus from infrastructure-level resources to a business-oriented view. By integrating directly with App Hub, Unified Maintenance now allows you to see maintenance events in the context of your applications.
How it works
This new capability leverages the "application" as the primary unit of management. When you register your resources in App Hub — whether they are GKE clusters, GCE VMs, or AlloyDB instances—Unified Maintenance automatically aggregates their maintenance schedules into a single, application-aware dashboard.
For platform engineers, this means:
- Reduced toil: No more manual mapping of maintenance alerts to application owners.
- Faster triage: Instantly see if a performance dip in an app coincides with a planned infrastructure update
- Predictable operations: Gain a business-oriented view of maintenance impacts across your entire landscape
Get started today
If you already have Applications defined in Google cloud, you can explore the new App-centric visibility features directly in the Google Cloud Console. To learn more about setting up your application boundaries and mapping resources, check out our Get Started Guide.
Finally, don’t forget to check out our supported services page as we are onboarding new services.
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